The Tropical Fruit Forum

Good morning all. I made some of these racks to keep the rats from eating the emerging seedling. They work great! I'm just to the point where I'm done collecting the seeds and moving onto larger pots. I'm not looking to profit off them and willing to trade for some cool plant(s). I have 3 available now and 1 in use for the next year. They are made for tree pots and 3.5" pot grow trays. Thanks for looking. Have a nice day!

My buddy gave me a couple under ripe nam doc mai that blew off his tree and they actually ripped up enough to enjoy. They didn't have full flavor but the best mango is the one your eating right now. The lemon merangue has to be tied for one of my favorite though. I'm not a big green mango fan though. Maybe I just need to try it green in a recipe. I was told to use a cheese grater and top a salad with it but I let the nam doc mangos get ripe instead of eating green. The ppk seedling from last year is already pushing 5' and starting to branch out, wow! Good luck with your tree!

i used to shoot invasive groupers and put them in holes around the house.  i think i dug at least a foot down.

slowly over time, i saw a bulge form.  then one night, i heard this <pffffffft> sound.  then a few seconds later, dead grouper smell infiltrated the house.  so be mindful of the wind and neighbors just in case your attempts fail!

I'll have to try the Jimmy Hoffa style fertilizing technique with a big fish like you palologrower baahahaha.

Seanny that's a good idea!  I wonder if some kind of bottomless can with lid, maybe aluminum, buried so you could just refill the hole and not have to dig each time would work the same?

Thanks Orkine!I thought about the coons having a feast also. Maybe if I use my wife's brand new blender and make the trees some fish smoothies they won't be able to dig up the goods. Lol I'll have to go net some and give it a go next weekend. Maybe a mortar paddle mixer on a drill in a bucket would help smoothie them up.

Anyone tried eating the pitangatuba after a miracle fruit?

K-rimes, thank you! I have some in pots and are cascading but no flowers yet. Needing to get those new solenoids hooked up to a controller to get them on a regular cycle.
The hydro d.f. is pretty serious looking. Cool videos! Thanks for sharing the links potato man!

Just anecdotal, but I find that mature pitaya, overall, can take as much water as you can give them - particularly from below provided they are not mostly shaded. Shallow roots systems can dry out up top, but mine are always wet 2 inches down and do fine. YMMV

Thanks for the words of experience! Good to know the mature vines can handle a good watering. I'll just have to experiment from here increasing the water. Hope I get some fruit to set this year.
Glad you got some yield fruitnoob! I'm sure it was a great reward rightfully earned.

Here's a row at my buddies farm in Naples. Absolutely loaded with fruit. Can barely wait to beg for some lemon merangue fruits from his trees 😋 . They were sooo delicious last year.

Nice!  Hope you get fruit.  My inga edulis flowered for the first time (at much larger size) last year but didn't set fruit.  Hoping this year it will.

Thanks man! I hope you get some pods as well. That's amazing you got it to flower in Pennsylvania, what size pot is it in? I have a vulpina I'm going to up pot and might just keep it in there indefinately. There's a mix of spectabalis, feulli and cinnamomea here.

Another inga here showing signs of flowering. This one's about 1.5"d trunk x 8' tall. Hopes are a little higher now that there's a couple to cross pollinate.

There's no hate here. Just when you call people trolls and imply cowardice behind screens when it's the internet. That's provoking a virtual battle. A comment I made on the price rising was wrong. I should have not said anything since theres so many fragile people here that take a penny so seriously( maybe me lol).  I mistake the competitions lower price for his rising. It didn't rise, it was always higher. Go buy em up people. I'm not supporting a community that thinks it's ok to imply cowardice behind screens like you need a face to face fight? Who thinks their not hiding behind a screen when your on the internet?  I don't take kindly to that. It was all price talk til things got personal and Joe started crying about having to work hard for $. I have safety equipment I wear all day but I thank it, not complain about. Moral of the story I shouldn't have mistaken a price hike for being 33% higher priced overall and to insinuate what he did was wrong as well. The ego of being the only person to have true seeds is insulting to the other kind sellers as well. You all don't know me or what I've done for any community.
Sorry Joe and community. I understand how much effort that is for you now. Forgive me for being wrong and bad mouthing you. Just don't expect people to be kind when you say stupid things like trolling and implying cowardice.
Dan never gave me a bad name so I didn't apply any to him. Was Boomer supposed to be insulting?  I'm going on 5years working alone and it's booming most weeks lol.  You all were just wanting to find a punching bag and didnt care who told what first lol. Here you go hit me, I can take some in return. I deserve it. Let er rip. My apologies.